# Join meeting control by API

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/join-meeting-control-by-api/1385>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [June 18, 2018, 8:27am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/join-meeting-control-by-api/1385 "2018-06-18T08:27:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Alpha\_EDU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Alpha\_EDU](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Alpha_EDU)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 8:27am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/join-meeting-control-by-api/1385/1 "2018-06-18T08:27:56Z")

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1. Prevent the host to invite the person during the meeting, can we greyed out invite button in the toolbars?

2. Accepted the invited person to join the meeting only, and prevent the other person to join even they have the meeting URL.

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**Author:** ![michael\_p.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/michael_p.zoom/32/18105_2.png) [@michael\_p.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/michael_p.zoom)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/join-meeting-control-by-api/1385/2 "2018-06-19T20:15:20Z")

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Hi Alpha EDU,&nbsp;

To assists you with your questions, would you be able to explain further of your use case?

1. Our API does not have the functionality to gray out buttons on the toolbar.
2. You can set the approval type to Manually Approve if you do not want the invited person to join the meeting.&nbsp;

Thanks&nbsp;

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**Author:** ![Amol\_Patil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Amol\_Patil](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Amol_Patil)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 6:52am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/join-meeting-control-by-api/1385/3 "2018-07-19T06:52:39Z")

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In api , userid is required ? so what will be my user id ?

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**Author:** ![michael\_p.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/michael_p.zoom/32/18105_2.png) [@michael\_p.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/michael_p.zoom)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/join-meeting-control-by-api/1385/4 "2018-07-19T15:42:27Z")

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Hi Amol,

You can use the Retrieve a user api and use your email to retrieve your userID -&nbsp;[https://zoom.github.io/api/#retrieve-a-user&nbsp;](https://zoom.github.io/api/#retrieve-a-user%C2%A0)

GET [https://api.zoom.us/v2/users/](https://api.zoom.us/v2/users/){email}

Thanks

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**Author:** ![DeveloperBot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/developerbot/32/12632_2.png) [@DeveloperBot](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/DeveloperBot)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/join-meeting-control-by-api/1385/5 "2020-08-21T17:49:25Z")

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Closed on August 21, 2020, 5:49pm UTC